From Ltc To Icu????

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hey everyone,

I am currently a manager at a LTC facility and have been in LTC since 2002. I worked in medsurg in 2001-2002 and got sick of too many patients and not even being able to care for your patients like you should? How is ICU? i am thinking about stepping out into something different? has anyone made this change? THis ICU i am considering is a 10 bed ICU in a small hospital-what do you think???Oh I am in FNP school too...am decided about ICU or ER at this point...advice please????

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hey everyone,

I am currently a manager at a LTC facility and have been in LTC since 2002. I worked in medsurg in 2001-2002 and got sick of too many patients and not even being able to care for your patients like you should? How is ICU? i am thinking about stepping out into something different? has anyone made this change? THis ICU i am considering is a 10 bed ICU in a small hospital-what do you think???Oh I am in FNP school too...am decided about ICU or ER at this point...advice please????

Just my oppinion, but ER may be better experience for FNP school depending on what type of practice you want to end up in. I personally love the ICU, but I think you have to be a certain type of personality for it. It can be intense, crazy busy running around doing 20 things at once, where you barely have time to eat, or it can be intense at the bedside titrating gtts where you can barely leave your patient to eat because they're so fragile. You may have more down time in a smaller hospital, depends on what the acuity of the patients is. Another thing to consider is that if you're in school orientation in the ICU setting is typically longer than that of other areas in the hospital, if you're close to graduation, management may not want to hire you and train you if you're not going to be able to work for them a year or two so they get their investment in you back if you know what I mean.

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hey everyone,

I am currently a manager at a LTC facility and have been in LTC since 2002. I worked in medsurg in 2001-2002 and got sick of too many patients and not even being able to care for your patients like you should? How is ICU? i am thinking about stepping out into something different? has anyone made this change? THis ICU i am considering is a 10 bed ICU in a small hospital-what do you think???Oh I am in FNP school too...am decided about ICU or ER at this point...advice please????

I agree with previous poster. Your best bet is ER. FNP's really dont have much of a place in icu... FNP's work under GP's who in turn kinda subordinate themselves to 'ologists' in ICU.

ER, however, would be a wonderful experience if considering FNP because the majority of ER patients are types who can (and should) be treated in offices where FNP's are in their element and are most useful.

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thanks so much for your honest reply :) I appreciate it...Kate

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